Tag: Wisconsin

The forecast had promised sunny, humid, and eighties. When the rain started coming down hard at 3am and didn’t stop, I knew our plans to whitewater raft on the Wolf were going to have to be delayed. We woke to mid-sixties and fog. Between the wind blowing the rain off the leaves and a few …

Scott went for a mountain bike ride while we got in some extra snuggle and glow stick dance party time. After a breakfast of pancakes we headed back to the beach. I’m not sure exactly at what point in the day it happened, but it happened. Scott and the kids were laughing away about some …

The kids have no idea who the Three Stooges are, but sleeping in between the two rollers and trying to dodge their random super swift limb extensions made me feel like I was reenacting the Three Stooges. Being wide awake turned out to be a blessing because the heat lightning started looking more like a …

We officially left on our 2016 Summer Trip at 2:15. The trip starting mileage in our new-to-us van was 119,517 miles. Our neighbor Beth was kind enough to take our first family photo. After some quick hugs we headed out for the first long trip… two miles away to Scott’s parents’ house. We didn’t stay …

Scott patiently waited for us all to wake up, but announced at 8:30 that he couldn’t sit any longer. So we had a quick snuggling session and wrapped everything up for the last time on this trip. While we were wrapping things up the ranger came by and noted that we hadn’t yet paid …